Russian Unity

Russian Unity was a Russian nationalist political party in Crimea that was active from 2008 to 2014. The party's main focus was Russian language rights and promoting Ukrainian relations with Russia before the 2014 Crimean Crisis, and it took part in the seizure of government buildings in the Crimea during the crisis. After the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, party leader Sergey Aksyonov led a merger of the Russian Unity party into the United Russia party.